The author of Beaver Street categorically denies any connection between his book and the film The Beaver, starring Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson. There is, however, an interesting story in Beaver Street about how John Hinckley wrote letters to High Society magazine urging them to run more nude photos of Jodie Foster.
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Beaver Street and The Beaver
May 6, 2011
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Mar 28, 2023 6:38 PM EDT
Interesting story behind the Jody Foster photos. I was the executive editor of High Society at the time, and spotted a thumbnail photo of her from that same shoot that appeared in Hustler. The photos (and she was surely underage at the time) had been taken by a European photographer, Hustler noted. So we contacted the photog under the auspices of Drake Publishing (the company founded by Ruderman's father), told him we were publishing a coffee table book of young film stars, and asked him to send us a sampling of his photos, which he did.
Even though by that time Jodie had made a splash in Taxi Driver, and had inspired Hinckley's assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, Ruderman insisted that no one knew of her well enough to sell magazines with her on the cover, and so that edition actually had a split cover, with half of the printed editions showing Jodie on the cover, the other half with a photo of one of the porn models featured in a spread in that edition.
BTW, the photo of Ruderman here was taken at about that same time. The guy on the right is Ira Kirschenbaum, who was Ruderman's financial right hand man, and the guy on the left is Jeff Goodman, who I had worked with years before at Myron Fass's Countrywide Publications. Jeff, who had also worked for Screw, was the editor of High Society spinoff High Society Live! and was instrumental in the start up of free phone sex, as was I. Which is another interesting story.
- Ed Fountaine